1. In your experience, when have you felt successful directly teaching ABOUT New Church concepts?
-When I can respond to their questions with New Church answers.
-When I come from a place of personal experience with excitement about the material.
-When a parent tells me that their kid has been talking about it at home.
-Yes, particularly when we have New Church curriculum to guide me.
-When students give back their interpretation of a New Church concept, that is not just a "spit-back"
-The idea about the Lord's Divine Providence in very easy for students to catch onto in history and literature.
-worship, definitely
-classroom meeting time on a topic
-history class
-lit class
2. How might the school system help you build on these strengths?
-Encourage me to take the time to think about how I'm doing this and how i could do it better.
-Sit down with new teachers and outline a few easy connections that could be made.
-Help new teachers by clearly showing them the curriculum connections to New Church concepts, i.e. how Divine Providence led the explorers to do what they did.
-I suppose more doctrinal study time (perhaps with choices for focus) would build my ability to do this well
3. What are some of the challenges you have faced teaching ABOUT New Church concepts?
-Figuring out the appropriate level of detail
-Students with other beliefs
-When a group of students are vocally opposed to a concept
-Too much religion turns them off
-I find I need more education myself about New Church doctrines
-student resistance. no, make that strong student resistance. Closed minds with open mouthes who make it difficult to serve those more open to the concepts.
-history content which is unreasonably large to cover in one school year - squeezes out good discussion
4. How might the school system support you in facing these challenges?
-Better studen screening process/admission
-Fostering/encouraging/requiring? me communicating with other grade 6 and 7 teachers.
-How about there is a "page" on each concept - per grade groupings? i.e. Divine Providence - what do teach about it in preschool, primary, intermediate, upper ect. I know this is what the religious concepts do at the beginning of the curriculum, but they need to be fleshed out much more and quotes and/or references given - we need the background knowledge behind the concepts.
1. In your experience, when have you felt successful directly teaching ABOUT New Church concepts?
-When I can respond to their questions with New Church answers.-When I come from a place of personal experience with excitement about the material.
-When a parent tells me that their kid has been talking about it at home.
-Yes, particularly when we have New Church curriculum to guide me.
-When students give back their interpretation of a New Church concept, that is not just a "spit-back"
-The idea about the Lord's Divine Providence in very easy for students to catch onto in history and literature.
-worship, definitely
-classroom meeting time on a topic
-history class
-lit class
2. How might the school system help you build on these strengths?
-Encourage me to take the time to think about how I'm doing this and how i could do it better.-Sit down with new teachers and outline a few easy connections that could be made.
-Help new teachers by clearly showing them the curriculum connections to New Church concepts, i.e. how Divine Providence led the explorers to do what they did.
-I suppose more doctrinal study time (perhaps with choices for focus) would build my ability to do this well
3. What are some of the challenges you have faced teaching ABOUT New Church concepts?
-Figuring out the appropriate level of detail-Students with other beliefs
-When a group of students are vocally opposed to a concept
-Too much religion turns them off
-I find I need more education myself about New Church doctrines
-student resistance. no, make that strong student resistance. Closed minds with open mouthes who make it difficult to serve those more open to the concepts.
-history content which is unreasonably large to cover in one school year - squeezes out good discussion
4. How might the school system support you in facing these challenges?
-Better studen screening process/admission-Fostering/encouraging/requiring? me communicating with other grade 6 and 7 teachers.
-How about there is a "page" on each concept - per grade groupings? i.e. Divine Providence - what do teach about it in preschool, primary, intermediate, upper ect. I know this is what the religious concepts do at the beginning of the curriculum, but they need to be fleshed out much more and quotes and/or references given - we need the background knowledge behind the concepts.
-revise history curriculum